Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameFrancis HURT 26
Birth Date1765
Birth PlacePrince Edward County, Virginia
Death Date10 Aug 1816 Age: 51
Death PlaceBuckingham, Buckingham County, Virginia
OccupationRW Soldier
FatherBenjamin HURT , 144 (1746-1796)
MotherJudith FORREST , 145 (1750-1803)
Spouses
Birth Date1765
Birth PlacePrince Edward County, Virginia
Death Date1840 Age: 75
Death PlaceBuckingham, Buckingham County, Virginia
Family ID3590
Marr Date27 Jul 1785
Marr PlacePrince Edward County, Virginia
Notes for Francis HURT
Francis Hurt, Virginia

Francis Hurt, a Virginia soldier of the Revolution (not further identified), (Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution, 1775-1783, by John Hastings Gwathmey, Page 405.

(Note by O.H.: This Francis Hurt has not been identified, but he may have been the Francis Hurt who married Peggy McTaggart in Prince Edward County, Va. on 7-27-1785 and who may have been a son of Benjamin and Judith Forest of Prince Edward County.

On Ancestry from andrea smith.

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HURT: English (chiefly Nottinghamshire): variant of Hart. German: topographic name from Middle High German hurt ‘hurdle’, ‘woven fence’. Dutch: nickname, presumably for a pugnacious or aggressive person, from Middle Dutch hort, hurt ‘strike’, ‘blow’, ‘attack’. Source: Dictionary of American Family Names Oxford University Press

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(1) information received from Betty Lawrence in Oct 1997 lists Francis as child #6 but b. date places him as child #1. His information has not turned up on other FGS for this family.

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Notes for Margaret “Peggy” (Spouse 1)
Informaton received from Betty Lawrence in Oct 1997.
Notes for Francis & Margaret “Peggy” (Family)
!information received from Betty Lawrence in Oct 1997.
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